INVITATION

Fine Arts Whanganui

Vintage Weekend Exhibition​

Vintage Weekend will run during Wellington Anniversary weekend, Friday 18 January to Monday 21 January 2019

The Gallery has been rehung and will be paying homage to Whanganui's annual Vintage Weekend with works small and large that will continue to evoke memories of your visit to Whanganui and a stunning Fine Arts Gallery in the heart of the city's creative centre.

Fine Arts Whanganui, Vintage Weekend Exhibition In the middle of January, during Wellington Anniversary Weekend, Whanganui will be abuzz with visitors for the annual Vintage Weekend. Features of this celebration of all things from days long gone, will be steam train rides, electric tram rides and jigger rides on the local rail lines. There will also be a vintage car rally over the Burma hill above Mangamahu. Many businesses and cafes will be joining to crank up the festivities and Fine Arts Whanganui will be mounting an exhibition to contribute to the weekend of celebrations.

Fine Arts Whanganui, Vintage Weekend ​Come along and visit our Gallery which will be celebrating Vintage Weekend along with the continuation of the Collective Summer Show. This exhibition will have a wide variety of new work from the Collective artists that will excite and intrigue with its variety in both small work and large art. They will be just what you are looking for as gifts, or for a personal memory of Vintage Weekend in this heritage city.

Fine Arts Whanganui is a beautiful gallery located alongside the Whanganui River, and is set in a stunning open, light filled historic building. Tram rides, train rides and the historic, steam powered paddle steamer 'Waimarie', are close by and will be active for visitors throughout January.

The artists in the Fine Arts Whanganui collective have been busy creating new work that will pay tribute to bygone days in order to help Whanganui celebrate our annual Vintage Weekend celebrations.

There will be exciting new works that respond to the Whanganui vintage exhibitions, performances and events on both land and on our beautiful Whanganui River. The Gallery has been dressed with samples of early life in both domestic and farming activities. These memorabilia will intrigue, amuse and perhaps even, educate.

Don't miss this opportunity to reminisce and enjoy memories of those who gave us so much to celebrate

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INVITATION

Collective Summer Seasonand Christmas ShowFine Arts Whanganui.

Open through December 2018 and January 2019@ Fine Arts Whanganui Gallery17 Taupo Quay, Whanganui

The Gallery has been rehung with works small and large that will make lovely gifts and treasured memories of a visit to a stunning Fine Arts Gallery in the centre of Whanganui's creative centre.

Fine Arts Whanganui Collective Summer Show

Come and visit our Collective Summer Show, which has a wide variety of new work from the Collective artists that will excite and intrigue with its variety and eclectic mix of both small work and large art. They will be just what you are looking for as gifts, or for your personal collection.

Fine Arts Whanganui is a beautiful gallery located alongside the Whanganui River, and is set in a stunning open, light filled historic building. Quality paintings, jewellery, and sculptural works are showcased by a collective of accomplished artists who are represented in collections nationally and internationally.

Traditional and contemporary works are well represented in a range of media and genres, welcoming visitors with a diverse and captivating art encounter on their Whanganui gallery tour.

​More samples from the Fine Arts Whanganui, Collective Summer Show

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Past events:

Heina Petzold

​We are proud to be showing an exhibition of work by local enamel-glass artist, Heina Petzold. Formerly from Waiheke Island, Heina has established a studio here in Whanganui, where he is practicing the ancient art of enamelling. Artisans for hundreds of years, produced objects of great beauty and the enamelling technique was taken to great heights by the Russians in the production of Faberge Eggs and later during the Art Nouveau era, was stunningly employed by the French artisans at Tiffany.

'With Gusto' explores Heina's vision for the future of enamelling in a modern context. He will be showing a selection of his favourite abstract and figurative works in both 2D and 3D. Also included in this exhibition will be Heina's recent exploration of the natural aspects of New Zealand's continuously changing landscape. His recent 'Faultline Series', from which four pieces will be on show, is inspired by the natural forces of his adopted country's earthquakes and volcanic activity.

'Shaky Isles', the newest creation, is made of "brilliantly coloured enamels, deep reds and yellow hues and incorporates the subdued yet strangely intense grey ash, which was recovered from a roof at Kuratau on the edge of Lake Taupo," following the major eruptions from Mt. Ruapehu in 1995.

The exhibition will run until Thursday 8 November 2018

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Katherine Buess

LEAF LINES

An exhibition of leaf inspired mixed media by Katherine Buess

We are proud to present Leaf Lines, an exhibition of work by Southland artist Katherine Buess. With an art studio based in Invercargill, she has been printmaking for many years and more recently experimenting with paper sculpture.

Graduating in 1992 from Otago Polytechnic School of Art with a Diploma in Fine Arts (honours), her art practice includes woodcuts, mixed media, paper sculpture and jewellery. After two years of living in Vanuatu, her work has a Melanesian flavour. Katherine is interested in the use of leaves in the making of adornment, in particular the salusalu (a neck garland worn to mark special occasions). Recently she has been making paper assemblages and sculptures based on native and exotic leaf motifs. ​

The exhibition runs until Thursday 13 September 2018.

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Michelle Colson

BLACK IS WHITE

We are proud to be showing an exhibition of work by well known local abstract artist Michelle Colson. Michelle is our newest Member and this will be her first showing at the Fine Arts Whanganui Gallery.

'Black is White' explores our perception of situations, or things as black or white and the polarising nature of these positions..... and how black is then white, or vice versa, depending on your position. Michelle is interested in the interchange and what occurs between these positions.

Michelle's work is a dialogue and a performance captured; fluid but fixed in time, an exchange and a form of transformation. Her abstract paintings have been described with words like bodily, visceral, organic, primordial and effortless. She is content to leave meaning and interpretation to the viewer rather than providing an explicit message via representation.